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Episode 5: Verity Book Review, TN Dumb Crimes, Roller Coasters And Way To Many Laughs · This Is My Circus

• 0:00
  Stefanie: Dylan Took my hair straightener to the beach.
• 0:01
  Meredith: We need to talk about this on here.
• 0:03
  Meredith: Okay.
• 0:03
  Meredith: If you're okay with that,
• 0:04
  Stefanie: We're Recording.
• 0:09
  Meredith: So he took your hair straightener to the beach.
• 0:11
  Stefanie: So he took my hair straightener to the beach, and this is the.
• 0:15
  Meredith: But your hairs got a natural curl.
• 0:17
  Meredith: That makes me jealous.
• 0:18
  Stefanie: A little bit of a wave, but you know, sea salt spray.
• 0:21
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 0:21
  Stefanie: And I told Dylan that, you know, the sea salt spray is gonna be natural at the beach.
• 0:25
  Meredith: Right.
• 0:26
  Stefanie: But no, he wanted his like little like, you know, he's got the poof hair.
• 0:30
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 0:31
  Meredith: And he needed the straightener to make it.
• 0:32
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 0:32
  Meredith: Do its thing.
• 0:33
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 0:34
  Meredith: Well, um, I didn't realize you were recording when.
• 0:37
  Meredith: Looking at my do in the thing.
• 0:38
  Meredith: Right.
• 0:38
  Stefanie: It looks really good then.
• 0:39
  Meredith: Well, I'm obsessed with like the girls that wear the pony tail.
• 0:42
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 0:42
  Meredith: And they do the bubble thing.
• 0:43
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 0:43
  Meredith: With having short hair.
• 0:44
  Meredith: This is like as close as I could get, but
• 0:45
  Stefanie: that looks fabulous.
• 0:46
  Meredith: I might be sporting this quite a, a bit.
• 0:48
  Meredith: Jackson's not a fan, but I don't care.
• 0:50
  Meredith: I
• 0:50
  Stefanie: love it.
• 0:51
  Meredith: Thank you.
• 0:51
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 0:52
  Stefanie: Well, I am Stefanie.
• 0:54
  Stefanie: And I'm Meredith and you are here with, this is my circus where.
• 0:59
  Stefanie: We talk hair,
• 1:00
  Meredith: apparently that's, that's what we're gonna kick it off with today.
• 1:03
  Meredith: Um,
• 1:04
  Stefanie: not just hair.
• 1:04
  Meredith: No,
• 1:05
  Stefanie: we've got lots of content coming today.
• 1:06
  Meredith: Lots of other things.
• 1:07
  Meredith: Let's, um, let's go ahead and go if you're okay, let's go.
• 1:09
  Meredith: So what have you been getting into?
• 1:11
  Meredith: Dylan's gone this week.
• 1:11
  Stefanie: Yeah, they have spring break this week.
• 1:13
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 1:13
  Stefanie: And so Dylan, um, was invited to the beach with his, one of his best friends.
• 1:17
  Stefanie: Nice.
• 1:18
  Stefanie: And they're very good family friends.
• 1:20
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 1:20
  Stefanie: So was totally okay with him going?
• 1:22
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 1:23
  Stefanie: Um, but I was.
• 1:25
  Meredith: Of course,
• 1:25
  Stefanie: because, you know, called beach.
• 1:27
  Stefanie: It's the beach, right, right.
• 1:28
  Stefanie: So he's been sending me pictures of the beach and like all the fun they're having, which I'm so glad that they're having fun.
• 1:33
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 1:34
  Stefanie: was there ever a question they would've No.
• 1:36
  Stefanie: Like he has a party anywhere he goes,
• 1:39
  Meredith: why am I not surprised?
• 1:42
  Meredith: Well, good, I'm glad having fun.
• 1:44
  Stefanie: How is everything going with you?
• 1:46
  Meredith: Things are good.
• 1:47
  Meredith: It's like you said, spring break.
• 1:48
  Meredith: Um, Jackson is home today.
• 1:50
  Meredith: He had a basketball tournament this weekend.
• 1:52
  Meredith: So it was just insanely busy cuz we had one last weekend as well.
• 1:55
  Meredith: And they're just all day events, I'm sure, you know, with your sports stuff.
• 1:59
  Meredith: So today he like slept until 1130 while I was downstairs just working away.
• 2:03
  Meredith: And um, he's leaving tomorrow to go out of town with his grandparents.
• 2:08
  Meredith: They're going to Six Flags.
• 2:09
  Meredith: So he's taking a friend and they're gonna go for the rest of the week.
• 2:13
  Meredith: Glad they're going to get to do something and have a good time and not just be stuck in the house.
• 2:17
  Meredith: Right.
• 2:17
  Meredith: Again, jealous.
• 2:18
  Meredith: Cause I am a rollercoaster person.
• 2:20
  Stefanie: Me too.
• 2:21
  Meredith: No, not spiny things though.
• 2:22
  Stefanie: No, no, no, no.
• 2:23
  Meredith: But roller coasters,
• 2:24
  Stefanie: I love me some rollercoaster.
• 2:25
  Stefanie: I do too.
• 2:26
  Stefanie: I don't even mind the upside down ones.
• 2:28
  Meredith: Oh gosh.
• 2:29
  Meredith: I'll do any rollercoaster.
• 2:30
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 2:30
  Stefanie: Um, I, but you know, at, Carowinds,
• 2:32
  Meredith: yeah.
• 2:33
  Stefanie: In Snoopy land.
• 2:35
  Stefanie: Do you know that?
• 2:36
  Meredith: That's not where I was gonna go, but Sure.
• 2:38
  Meredith: Whatever.
• 2:39
  Stefanie: When Dylan was little, yeah.
• 2:41
  Stefanie: He loved that stupid hot air balloon ride that they have there.
• 2:44
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 2:44
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 2:44
  Stefanie: And, and if you sit on the one way, like you're going backwards Yeah.
• 2:48
  Stefanie: I would get so motion I will go on any rollercoaster.
• 2:51
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 2:51
  Stefanie: Under the sun.
• 2:51
  Stefanie: Right.
• 2:52
  Stefanie: But I will never
• 2:54
  Meredith: do those spins again.
• 2:55
  Meredith: Hot,
• 2:55
  Stefanie: you know, balloon.
• 2:56
  Stefanie: In the kiddy land,
• 2:58
  Meredith: the other ones I can't do.
• 3:00
  Meredith: So I've always loved water slides.
• 3:02
  Meredith: But water slides now they're enclosed who, they almost give me a panic attack.
• 3:06
  Meredith: And that is new.
• 3:07
  Meredith: That has never been a thing before.
• 3:08
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:09
  Meredith: But yeah, I freak out, like, get me outta here.
• 3:11
  Meredith: And then when you're, you know, 10 or 12 or however, you don't feel all the bumps and stuff going down.
• 3:17
  Meredith: No.
• 3:18
  Meredith: When I went down one not too long ago, it's like, Well, a couple years, whatever, like every crease where the sections are attached, it's like speed bumps.
• 3:25
  Meredith: Like I never, never, never again will I do that.
• 3:29
  Meredith: Now, the ones that just go like straight down that are one piece or whatever, I'm fine at that.
• 3:33
  Stefanie: Do you do the ones that like the floor drops out?
• 3:35
  Stefanie: I have, yeah.
• 3:36
  Stefanie: I don't like those.
• 3:37
  Meredith: Well, they like a bank teller sheet.
• 3:42
  Meredith: Is it the thing dropping that you don't like?
• 3:44
  Stefanie: I, I don't, yeah.
• 3:45
  Stefanie: It's not for me.
• 3:46
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 3:46
  Stefanie: And you know, like I, I don't know.
• 3:49
  Stefanie: Um, I,
• 3:53
  Meredith: I, I like them, but again, they're enclosed.
• 3:55
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:55
  Meredith: They have to be because of that.
• 3:56
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 3:56
  Meredith: So I, I mean, that was probably been like five or six years ago that I did it.
• 3:59
  Meredith: It's like every year it's just that much worse.
• 4:01
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 4:02
  Meredith: Um, so I, I
• 4:03
  Stefanie: like the big tube ones.
• 4:04
  Stefanie: Like, we're like, it's like the toilet bowl.
• 4:06
  Meredith: Oh yeah.
• 4:06
  Meredith: But I'm only scared we're gonna fly over the side, and I know that's the point.
• 4:09
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 4:10
  Meredith: But it's just terrifying.
• 4:11
  Meredith: I,
• 4:11
  Stefanie: I, I like.
• 4:12
  Stefanie: Yeah, I like when I'm on a tube.
• 4:14
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 4:14
  Meredith: I don't like to be, I like when I'm on a tube floating down a river, dude.
• 4:17
  Stefanie: Like the Lazy River.
• 4:18
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 4:19
  Stefanie: Is totally my scene.
• 4:19
  Meredith: Those are good.
• 4:20
  Meredith: But then there's all the punk kids in there like, oh yes, don't let'em in there.
• 4:25
  Meredith: That's enough.
• 4:25
  Stefanie: This summer I'm gonna, you know, like at the Y, they have like, Um, no kid time for like 10 minutes on the hour.
• 4:31
  Stefanie: Every hour.
• 4:32
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 4:32
  Stefanie: I'm gonna get a bell, um, for outside.
• 4:35
  Meredith: And you're not gonna let the kids in.
• 4:37
  Meredith: This is adult swim only.
• 4:39
  Meredith: I remember that when I was a kid though.
• 4:40
  Meredith: It's like, God, why do adults need in there when we can't be in there?
• 4:43
  Meredith: And that's when I'd go.
• 4:44
  Meredith: Eat my Cheezits or whatever snack I had.
• 4:46
  Meredith: What's your favorite rollercoaster you've ever been on?
• 4:49
  Stefanie: I love the I Intimidator.
• 4:50
  Meredith: Yeah, that's a good one.
• 4:51
  Stefanie: That is probably my favorite.
• 4:53
  Stefanie: Favorite really?
• 4:53
  Stefanie: But, you know, couple of years ago me and Dylan got stuck on it.
• 4:56
  Meredith: Did you?
• 4:57
  Stefanie: Um, like while it was going up.
• 4:58
  Meredith: Okay.
• 4:59
  Stefanie: And so Dylan took it like a champ.
• 5:01
  Stefanie: I was like, just.
• 5:02
  Stefanie: I'm like, it's fine.
• 5:03
  Stefanie: We're, we're not even at the top yet.
• 5:04
  Stefanie: If we have to get out their stairs right there, right.
• 5:06
  Stefanie: It'ss?
• 5:06
  Stefanie: Totally fine.
• 5:07
  Meredith: How long were you stopped?
• 5:08
  Stefanie: Like 10 minutes.
• 5:09
  Meredith: Okay.
• 5:09
  Stefanie: Um, but we had this like big dude behind us, right?
• 5:14
  Stefanie: Like, was he freaking out?
• 5:15
  Stefanie: He was a big dude, right?
• 5:16
  Stefanie: Like.
• 5:17
  Stefanie: A dude, you don't expect to like freak out.
• 5:19
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 5:19
  Stefanie: And he was like, oh, sweet Jesus.
• 5:22
  Stefanie: Oh my God.
• 5:23
  Meredith: It might've been Brian
• 5:25
  Stefanie: and me and Dylan were like, it was like the comic relief you needed.
• 5:29
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 5:30
  Stefanie: So like, dude was like legit freaking out.
• 5:31
  Meredith: That's pretty funny.
• 5:32
  Stefanie: And he was just this like, were you talking, were you like, so we're gonna be okay Bigga?
• 5:36
  Stefanie: No, me and Dylan were on at the laugh at him.
• 5:39
  Meredith: Well good.
• 5:39
  Meredith: I'm glad you know, that helped you through your situation.
• 5:42
  Meredith: Um, my favorite rollercoaster.
• 5:43
  Meredith: I've got two.
• 5:44
  Meredith: Um, Hey Rex.
• 5:46
  Meredith: Have you ever been?
• 5:47
  Meredith: For those of you, I'm, I'm bad about not calling out the people that can't see us.
• 5:51
  Meredith: So Rex is Yes.
• 5:53
  Meredith: Joining us.
• 5:53
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 5:54
  Stefanie: Um, my dog, Rex likes to see himself on video.
• 5:57
  Meredith: Excuse me, Rex.
• 5:59
  Meredith: I didn't realize I was in your way.
• 6:00
  Stefanie: He's pushing us out of the way.
• 6:02
  Meredith: I know.
• 6:03
  Meredith: I'll scratch your back.
• 6:03
  Meredith: So, my favorite rollercoaster is, um, have you ever been to Cedar Point in Ohio?
• 6:08
  Meredith: Mm.
• 6:08
  Meredith: So they have one there called the TR Top Thrilled Dragster, and I actually just heard that they're taking it down.
• 6:13
  Meredith: Oh.
• 6:14
  Meredith: But it's one that's like a paper clip, like it goes straight up and straight down.
• 6:18
  Meredith: Um, it was terrifying, but in retrospect it was amazing.
• 6:21
  Meredith: Yeah, it was like a four second long one.
• 6:22
  Meredith: Oh, baby.
• 6:24
  Stefanie: I had taken Dylan and a couple of his friends to, Carowinds.
• 6:27
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 6:27
  Stefanie: A couple of.
• 6:29
  Stefanie: Falls ago.
• 6:30
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 6:30
  Stefanie: when I wasn't okay with them going by themselves.
• 6:33
  Stefanie: Sure.
• 6:34
  Stefanie: so, we were going on, what's the new one that they just put in there?
• 6:37
  Stefanie: Like,
• 6:37
  Meredith: um, Cobra?
• 6:39
  Stefanie: No.
• 6:39
  Stefanie: Um, there's, he, it's like that the, the longest where?
• 6:43
  Meredith: Fury?
• 6:43
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 6:43
  Stefanie: Fury.
• 6:43
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 6:44
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 6:44
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 6:44
  Stefanie: This one too.
• 6:45
  Stefanie: I, and I love fear.
• 6:46
  Stefanie: I mean, that's a great rollercoaster, but one of Dylan's friend, He was petrified, like he did not want, and I'm like, dude, we just waited online for two and a half hours.
• 6:53
  Stefanie: Right?
• 6:54
  Stefanie: Like, we are riding this ride.
• 6:55
  Meredith: We are riding.
• 6:56
  Meredith: We're gonna have fun.
• 6:57
  Stefanie: Like, no, we are not.
• 6:59
  Stefanie: We are not.
• 7:00
  Stefanie: No.
• 7:00
  Stefanie: And we have to stay together.
• 7:01
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 7:01
  Stefanie: I'm charge of you.
• 7:02
  Stefanie: Like ride this ride.
• 7:05
  Meredith: I was so excited for Jackson to get to the age where I could just dropping'em off and then now they, there's like some parents Yeah.
• 7:12
  Meredith: I requirements now for certain events.
• 7:14
  Stefanie: Well that's just for Scarowinds.
• 7:15
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 7:16
  Stefanie: But it was really bad.
• 7:17
  Meredith: Oh God.
• 7:18
  Meredith: That was terrifying.
• 7:18
  Meredith: Yes, and we had some friends that were there.
• 7:20
  Stefanie: Dylan was there.
• 7:21
  Stefanie: He was with Jonas.
• 7:22
  Meredith: Yes, I know Jonas was there.
• 7:23
  Meredith: I forgot who was with Dylan.
• 7:24
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 7:25
  Stefanie: They called up Jazz and said, mom, me, and Dilly are running outta here.
• 7:34
  Stefanie: They're shooting up the place.
• 7:36
  Meredith: Well, I mean, I, it's terrible.
• 7:40
  Meredith: I'm not even gonna expand on that one.
• 7:41
  Stefanie: Dylan didn't call me.
• 7:42
  Stefanie: He just called her.
• 7:44
  Meredith: Was she the pickup person?
• 7:45
  Stefanie: No, she wasn't supposed to pick up Dylan.
• 7:46
  Stefanie: Dylan got separated from his friend, his other friends that he went with, they like jetted and left him.
• 7:51
  Meredith: Well, I'm glad he ran into Jon's.
• 7:53
  Stefanie: Well, he was with Jonas.
• 7:54
  Stefanie: Like hanging out.
• 7:54
  Stefanie: Yeah, hanging out.
• 7:55
  Stefanie: And then they just like dipped so Jonas calls Jazz and he's, and they, they get in her car and they had Chick-fil-A.
• 8:05
  Meredith: I heard about that.
• 8:06
  Meredith: I've, I've seen them and then their posts on social media that were a little much, but, um, they made me laugh though.
• 8:12
  Meredith: Yes.
• 8:13
  Meredith: That's funny that he was with Jonas.
• 8:15
  Meredith: I'm glad he was.
• 8:15
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 8:16
  Meredith: Jonas is one of those kids that's just, he's gonna be okay.
• 8:19
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 8:19
  Meredith: In any situation.
• 8:20
  Meredith: Hey Jonas.
• 8:21
  Meredith: Hey Miss Jasmine.
• 8:22
  Meredith: Um, but Jackson has this thing, he's like, and he told me this, gosh, like years ago, I'm talking, he was like, maybe five or six said Mommy.
• 8:31
  Meredith: If I ever go to jail and you know, I'm like, oh my gosh, what?
• 8:35
  Meredith: He said, I, I hope I'm with Jonas.
• 8:38
  Meredith: And I was like, you know what?
• 8:40
  Meredith: Me too buddy.
• 8:41
  Meredith: Me too.
• 8:41
  Stefanie: You guys will be okay.
• 8:42
  Meredith: They, between the two of them, they'll,
• 8:44
  Stefanie: they'll be running, be running the place.
• 8:46
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 8:46
  Meredith: Pretty much.
• 8:47
  Meredith: Pretty much.
• 8:48
  Stefanie: Speaking of rollercoaster before Dylan, this is not my best shining mom moment, but Dylan,
• 8:54
  Meredith: even better.
• 8:55
  Stefanie: Dylan, there's many, um, Dylan wanted to ride the rollercoaster so bad and he was like a half an inch too short.
• 9:03
  Meredith: Did you do shoe lifts?
• 9:05
  Stefanie: Um, I just took him into the bathroom and shoved paper towels and.
• 9:12
  Stefanie: He, yeah.
• 9:14
  Stefanie: And he had a walk like this,
• 9:16
  Meredith: so Jackson learned, oh God.
• 9:19
  Meredith: Again, this
• 9:21
  Stefanie: you're, winning parenting moment to.
• 9:22
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 9:22
  Meredith: So Jackson wore, um, like insoles in his heels to give himself a little bit, or he learned, oh my God.
• 9:28
  Meredith: Like he learned how to barely raise his heels up
• 9:30
  Stefanie: Uhhuh.
• 9:31
  Meredith: So it wasn't noticeable, but it was No.
• 9:33
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 9:33
  Meredith: We are the best moms ever.
• 9:35
  Stefanie: We are
• 9:35
  Meredith: now with that, say both of our boys are sturdy boys.
• 9:40
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:41
  Meredith: Like they were, you know, all of the harnesses and stuff go over.
• 9:44
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:45
  Meredith: And they were, their shoulders were way big.
• 9:47
  Meredith: Yes.
• 9:47
  Meredith: And they.
• 9:49
  Meredith: Yeah, I was not trying to hurt my child, and I know you were
• 9:52
  Stefanie: No, no, no.
• 9:53
  Stefanie: It was like a half an inch and like Yeah.
• 9:55
  Stefanie: It was like, come, uh, with his hair.
• 9:56
  Stefanie: Like, I was like, right.
• 9:57
  Stefanie: I mean, just don't flatten his hair.
• 9:59
  Stefanie: Right.
• 10:00
  Stefanie: But, um, after the first round, I then, and, and we realized it worked.
• 10:04
  Stefanie: Like we just gotta shoved something in his shoes, but the paper towels hurt his feet.
• 10:07
  Stefanie: So I came home and I, I sewed him.
• 10:09
  Stefanie: Little pillow socks.
• 10:13
  Meredith: Pillow socks.
• 10:14
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 10:14
  Stefanie: And like, I took the stepping from pillows and I sewed a sock together.
• 10:18
  Stefanie: So that it was enough.
• 10:20
  Meredith: That's, that is like a committed
• 10:23
  Stefanie: and it was soft and squishy.
• 10:25
  Meredith: TM, that's pretty cool.
• 10:29
  Stefanie: So any parents out there if you wanna sneak, can get onto us some
• 10:33
  Meredith: great parenting tips.
• 10:34
  Meredith: From, from some prose here.
• 10:36
  Stefanie: Well,
• 10:38
  Meredith: if you don't wanna go to the insole route, you can um, buy some pillow socks from Stef.
• 10:43
  Meredith: Um, okay.
• 10:44
  Meredith: Let's change gears cause we do have a lot to talk about today.
• 10:47
  Stefanie: Yes, we do.
• 10:47
  Meredith: So did you read Verity?
• 10:50
  Stefanie: So good.
• 10:51
  Stefanie: I listened to it.
• 10:52
  Meredith: I did too.
• 10:52
  Meredith: I like, I had read it before, but I'll listen to it.
• 10:55
  Meredith: I just finished it today.
• 10:57
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 10:58
  Meredith: And I don't even know where to start or what to even think.
• 11:02
  Meredith: Okay.
• 11:02
  Meredith: Like it's, no.
• 11:03
  Meredith: Okay.
• 11:03
  Meredith: No spoilers.
• 11:04
  Meredith: We're trying not to spoilers,
• 11:05
  Stefanie: so let's Okay.
• 11:06
  Stefanie: Severity by Colleen Hoover.
• 11:08
  Stefanie: Yep.
• 11:08
  Stefanie: And again, I have read several of her books Yes.
• 11:11
  Stefanie: Before.
• 11:12
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 11:12
  Stefanie: And this one just had a way like darker twister feel to it, which I loved.
• 11:17
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 11:17
  Meredith: Same.
• 11:18
  Stefanie: Totally loved it.
• 11:19
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 11:20
  Stefanie: And um, so from what the Amazon little.
• 11:25
  Stefanie: Blur, yeah.
• 11:26
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 11:27
  Stefanie: Um, Amazon, Amazon description, Lowen Ashley is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime.
• 11:34
  Stefanie: Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford has hired lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series, his injured wife is unable to finish.
• 11:46
  Stefanie: She arrives at the Crawford home ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started.
• 11:52
  Stefanie: What Lowen doesn't expect is to uncover the chaotic office in an unfinished autobiography.
• 11:58
  Stefanie: Verity never intended for anyone to read page after page of bone chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night their family was forever.
• 12:08
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 12:08
  Stefanie: And then there's a warning, um, due to sensitive topics.
• 12:11
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 12:11
  Stefanie: It's 18 and up.
• 12:13
  Stefanie: So with that said, with that said, WTF was my notes
• 12:20
  Meredith: sounds about Right.
• 12:22
  Meredith: Well the, the book gives you such emotion mm-hmm.
• 12:27
  Meredith: Going through it and you start to feel a certain way.
• 12:31
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 12:32
  Meredith: Verity.
• 12:33
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 12:33
  Meredith: And you know, you have this thought in your mind on how she is and Jeremy, the husband, like, you're like, Aw, you know,
• 12:41
  Stefanie: you feel so sorry for him.
• 12:41
  Meredith: Yes.
• 12:42
  Meredith: And whatever.
• 12:43
  Meredith: And then, you know, you're on the, um, Lowen and you're on her side and, you know,
• 12:48
  Stefanie: you feel horrible for her, with her and every
• 12:50
  Meredith: Yes, yes.
• 12:51
  Meredith: With her history and, you know, she's just gone through some traumatic events with her family.
• 12:57
  Meredith: Then all of that just goes up in smoke.
• 12:59
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:00
  Stefanie: So I was, as I'm reading this and like, you know, like, I'm like, okay, there's gotta be something going, right.
• 13:05
  Stefanie: There's be something,
• 13:05
  Meredith: what's the catch?
• 13:05
  Meredith: What's the twist?
• 13:06
  Stefanie: I really thought it was gonna be the son.
• 13:08
  Stefanie: Um, his name was
• 13:10
  Meredith: Chase.
• 13:11
  Meredith: Crew.
• 13:11
  Meredith: Crew.
• 13:12
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 13:12
  Stefanie: Crew and I, I was praying he wasn't like this little evil spawn of the devil.
• 13:16
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:16
  Stefanie: Like, like
• 13:18
  Meredith: Right.
• 13:18
  Meredith: Because there were certain situations that you were like, okay, that's curious
• 13:22
  Stefanie: and, it's gonna be, hi, this what kept going through my head.
• 13:24
  Stefanie: I'm like, please don't make it a little five year old.
• 13:26
  Stefanie: Evil, please.
• 13:29
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 13:30
  Stefanie: But yeah, it was such a good like, I, and I loved the, the whole turnaround.
• 13:37
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:37
  Stefanie: Um, that, uh, Lowen had mm-hmm.
• 13:40
  Stefanie: From the start mm-hmm.
• 13:41
  Stefanie: To where she just found her confidence and she found herself.
• 13:43
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:43
  Stefanie: And then, then of course, no spoiler, but Right.
• 13:48
  Stefanie: Um, so I.
• 13:51
  Stefanie: Really can, like, I really felt like I understood her mm-hmm.
• 13:54
  Stefanie: Throughout, and I understood her rage Yeah.
• 13:56
  Stefanie: Throughout.
• 13:57
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 13:57
  Stefanie: Um, imagining finding all this, all those information.
• 14:01
  Stefanie: So,
• 14:01
  Meredith: and, and you can't tell anybody about what the things that she uncovered.
• 14:05
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 14:05
  Meredith: Um, just to hold that dear.
• 14:08
  Meredith: And then the, and end of the book.
• 14:11
  Meredith: With the other pieces that come out and she is like having to hold all of this even more.
• 14:19
  Meredith: I just couldn't imagine.
• 14:20
  Stefanie: She literally ate her secrets.
• 14:22
  Meredith: Literally ate her secrets.
• 14:24
  Meredith: Literally it, yeah.
• 14:26
  Meredith: It was a crazy one.
• 14:27
  Meredith: I did like it, I thought, um, well, I don't wanna say what I want to think cause then it might be, you know, more spoilers, but.
• 14:34
  Meredith: Or lead to a spoiler, but I, I had an idea of who done it, whatever, you know, what my thoughts were and I, I don't know, just to be so wrong.
• 14:46
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 14:48
  Meredith: Not that I'm not ever wrong, but you know, most books are so, and we've talked about this before, we both like unpredictable yes and kind of twisted and this definitely fit the bill.
• 14:56
  Meredith: Um, but you know, you,
• 14:58
  Stefanie: is there something wrong with this?
• 14:59
  Meredith: Probably, probably.
• 15:01
  Meredith: There's probably, its,
• 15:03
  Stefanie: the list is long.
• 15:04
  Stefanie: That's a very long list.
• 15:05
  Stefanie: Our book choices very low
• 15:07
  Meredith: revealing a little bit are they, But you know, to you, you get to where you can kind of figure out what's gonna happen in a book and blah, blah blah, and you skip through pages cause you know what's gonna happen.
• 15:16
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 15:16
  Meredith: And this book was not that.
• 15:18
  Stefanie: No.
• 15:18
  Stefanie: I read everything.
• 15:19
  Meredith: Even after I was going back and listening to it after I had already read it like several months ago, I was still like W t F.
• 15:28
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 15:28
  Meredith: Like you said, like my gosh.
• 15:30
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 15:30
  Meredith: And okay, so here's another thing.
• 15:33
  Meredith: Could you have lived in that house?
• 15:35
  Stefanie: No.
• 15:37
  Meredith: Can you imagine?
• 15:38
  Stefanie: No,
• 15:39
  Meredith: it was freaky.
• 15:41
  Stefanie: No.
• 15:42
  Stefanie: No,
• 15:42
  Meredith: that was crazy to me.
• 15:43
  Meredith: No, that was crazy.
• 15:44
  Meredith: Like I just had these thoughts of like when, when things would happen and she would see something moving here or there.
• 15:50
  Stefanie: No, I would've been out of there.
• 15:51
  Stefanie: Yeah, out of there.
• 15:52
  Stefanie: I told you this on the last podcast.
• 15:54
  Stefanie: I like totally believe in all the supernatural weird like stuff.
• 15:57
  Meredith: All the things
• 15:58
  Stefanie: and, and while I believe in them, I don't want to experience them.
• 16:01
  Meredith: Yes, I agree.
• 16:02
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:02
  Stefanie: I would've been so far out of that house, like, peace out.
• 16:04
  Meredith: You would've been gone.
• 16:05
  Stefanie: No.
• 16:05
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 16:06
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:07
  Meredith: That it,
• 16:07
  Stefanie: you couldn't have paid me to stay there.
• 16:08
  Meredith: I just had that.
• 16:09
  Meredith: It's like, you know when you watch one of those mo like with all the jump scares, you know?
• 16:12
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 16:13
  Meredith: It's like live in that.
• 16:14
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:14
  Meredith: I'm good, bro.
• 16:15
  Stefanie: No, I'm good too.
• 16:16
  Stefanie: But it was a great book.
• 16:17
  Stefanie: It was highly recommend.
• 16:18
  Meredith: Highly recommend that one.
• 16:19
  Stefanie: Very, very, very good.
• 16:22
  Stefanie: Um, what do you wanna read next?
• 16:23
  Stefanie: Did you know next, oh, go ahead.
• 16:24
  Stefanie: That Colleen Hoover self-published like a, like many, many of her books un until she got picked up by a publishing house.
• 16:31
  Stefanie: No.
• 16:31
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 16:32
  Stefanie: That's pretty cool.
• 16:32
  Stefanie: So like, she let, she's doing sponsors.
• 16:34
  Stefanie: We're just waiting here for you.
• 16:37
  Meredith: She, she sounds like she's, you know, just wanting her stuff done.
• 16:40
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:40
  Meredith: And she's like, I wanna do it myself.
• 16:42
  Stefanie: She got it done.
• 16:43
  Stefanie: She was else around.
• 16:44
  Meredith: It's kinda like when you're like, will you take the trash out?
• 16:46
  Meredith: And they're like, yeah, I'll take it out.
• 16:48
  Meredith: And you mean No, like now.
• 16:49
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Meredith: That's inferred.
• 16:51
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 16:52
  Meredith: Is that the right word?
• 16:52
  Meredith: Yes.
• 16:53
  Meredith: And they don't take it out now.
• 16:54
  Meredith: Well, I was going to it later, no.
• 16:56
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 16:57
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 16:59
  Stefanie: And then, yeah.
• 16:59
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 17:00
  Meredith: Let's not go down that one.
• 17:02
  Meredith: Um, do we wanna pick our next book now?
• 17:04
  Meredith: Do you have any ideas?
• 17:05
  Stefanie: Sure., what do you think?
• 17:07
  Meredith: Well, I had looked at, um, Another.
• 17:10
  Meredith: Ooh, I re-listened to Gong Girl.
• 17:13
  Stefanie: So good.
• 17:14
  Meredith: Another twisted choice.
• 17:16
  Meredith: Yes.
• 17:16
  Meredith: But, um, Jillian McMaster did Gong Girl.
• 17:18
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:19
  Meredith: Um, there's another one.
• 17:20
  Meredith: Wrong place, wrong time.
• 17:21
  Stefanie: I've not read that one.
• 17:23
  Meredith: That's it.
• 17:23
  Meredith: Okay.
• 17:24
  Meredith: Wrong place.
• 17:25
  Meredith: Wrong place.
• 17:25
  Meredith: Wrong time.
• 17:26
  Meredith: Okay.
• 17:26
  Meredith: Yep.
• 17:27
  Meredith: Jillian McMaster.
• 17:28
  Meredith: That's gonna be our book.
• 17:28
  Stefanie: All right.
• 17:29
  Meredith: I've heard good things about it.
• 17:31
  Stefanie: I am sure it's great.
• 17:32
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 17:33
  Meredith: Cause she's, I like her.
• 17:34
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 17:34
  Stefanie: I love her style.
• 17:35
  Meredith: And then I think we need to get out of the Jillian McMaster and Colleen Hoover thing as much as I could like dwell in our presence.
• 17:41
  Meredith: Yes.
• 17:41
  Meredith: We need to move on.
• 17:43
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 17:43
  Stefanie: There's lots of great writers.
• 17:45
  Meredith: Yes.
• 17:45
  Meredith: Okay.
• 17:45
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 17:46
  Meredith: Okay, cool.
• 17:47
  Meredith: My wrong place wrong time.
• 17:48
  Stefanie: I'm in.
• 17:48
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 17:49
  Stefanie: Alright.
• 17:50
  Stefanie: so do you wanna do dumb crimes?
• 17:52
  Meredith: Yeah,
• 17:53
  Stefanie: this week we did t.
• 17:55
  Stefanie: Because that's where I lived before here.
• 17:57
  Meredith: Yep.
• 17:58
  Meredith: You sure did.
• 17:59
  Meredith: You sure did.
• 18:01
  Meredith: Um, and that was a good choice.
• 18:02
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 18:03
  Meredith: I found some something that I'm like, I,
• 18:05
  Stefanie: yeah, I did too.
• 18:06
  Stefanie: Did you have a hard time like pulling up like actual dumb crimes.
• 18:09
  Stefanie: Cause when I Google searched it, I just got the dumb laws.
• 18:12
  Meredith: I got a lot of dumb laws and I was getting, like, I specified Tennessee.
• 18:17
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 18:17
  Meredith: And I was getting like all over and I was like, Ooh, bookmark that for later.
• 18:20
  Meredith: Ooh.
• 18:20
  Meredith: Bookmark that for later.
• 18:22
  Meredith: Um, but I did try to, and I was not able to meet any of the requirements that we wanted to meet as far as, or that we had joked about with like moonshot and, yeah.
• 18:30
  Stefanie: No, mine's real.
• 18:31
  Stefanie: It's really funny.
• 18:32
  Stefanie: But before we get to that, okay.
• 18:33
  Stefanie: Speaking of the dumb laws, yeah.
• 18:35
  Stefanie: I did save one of the laws that I thought was like,
• 18:36
  Meredith: I can't wait to hear it.
• 18:38
  Stefanie: So in the small town of.
• 18:39
  Stefanie: Dyersburg, it's illegal for women to call a man for a date.
• 18:45
  Stefanie: So the ball in the guys court,
• 18:47
  Meredith: oh my gosh,
• 18:47
  Stefanie: no matter what.
• 18:48
  Stefanie: Could you imagine?
• 18:50
  Stefanie: I mean, I was not, I would never probably have the guts to ask a due doubt anyway.
• 18:54
  Meredith: I was never that girl either.
• 18:56
  Meredith: But but to just be told that I can't do it.
• 18:59
  Meredith: Oh, watch this.
• 19:02
  Stefanie: You're like 80's style with the boom bottle.
• 19:04
  Stefanie: Pretty
• 19:04
  Meredith: much.
• 19:05
  Meredith: Maybe.
• 19:06
  Meredith: I'm like, that sounds like a good idea.
• 19:07
  Stefanie: Big like poster board.
• 19:09
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 19:09
  Meredith: Like stand outside the window.
• 19:10
  Meredith: Oh yeah.
• 19:11
  Meredith: Um, yes or no.
• 19:12
  Meredith: You know how they do all the prom puzzles now with all the cute things?
• 19:15
  Stefanie: Oh my gosh.
• 19:16
  Meredith: Uh, that stresses me out.
• 19:17
  Meredith: Cause I know my son's not gonna be able to think anything like that.
• 19:21
  Stefanie: Oh god, I, it's more intricate than a marriage proposal.
• 19:28
  Meredith: I know.
• 19:28
  Meredith: Like I know.
• 19:28
  Meredith: It is.
• 19:29
  Stefanie: What?
• 19:29
  Stefanie: I know why
• 19:30
  Meredith: I'm not gonna, I don't know.
• 19:32
  Meredith: I that's, you're gonna hit that before me.
• 19:35
  Meredith: You let me know.
• 19:36
  Stefanie: I, no, no ma'am.
• 19:39
  Meredith: Alright, you tell us your, dumb crime story first.
• 19:41
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 19:42
  Stefanie: So this came from newser.com Okay.
• 19:45
  Stefanie: And, it says A 54 year old guy in eastern Tennessee is Sure two of his neighbors stole more than$1,000 worth of stuff.
• 19:54
  Stefanie: From his home, but it's the way they did it that's making headlines as Steven Ameral tells it.
• 20:00
  Stefanie: The husband and wife came to his house and the woman asked to swim in his pool reports, the Crossville Chronicle.
• 20:06
  Stefanie: He said, sure, and then she asked hubby to go home to get her cigarettes.
• 20:10
  Stefanie: When he left, the wife asked permission to swim naked, which she did for 20 minutes.
• 20:17
  Stefanie: In front of the apparently mesmerized man.
• 20:21
  Meredith: Mesmerized.
• 20:23
  Stefanie: It gets better.
• 20:23
  Meredith: Oh great.
• 20:24
  Meredith: I'm here for it.
• 20:25
  Stefanie: It was only after she left that he discovered he'd been had, he told the cops that the husband must have gone through his home while he was watching the swim show.
• 20:33
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 20:34
  Stefanie: Police.
• 20:35
  Stefanie: Have identified the suspects, but have yet to make any arrests Wk Rrn has this awesome, and maybe a little inscruple quote from Ameral.
• 20:45
  Stefanie: I went and got her a towel.
• 20:47
  Stefanie: She dried off and all of a sudden she was soaking what again?
• 20:50
  Stefanie: I escorted her outside.
• 20:53
  Stefanie: I invited her to church, but she said she didn't have time for that.
• 20:59
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 21:00
  Meredith: Direct quote.
• 21:02
  Meredith: I ain't got time for that.
• 21:05
  Meredith: Wow.
• 21:06
  Meredith: I did not come across that story in my searches.
• 21:09
  Meredith: I did not.
• 21:10
  Stefanie: So it wasn't a dumb criminal, but it was a hysterical crime.
• 21:13
  Meredith: It is.
• 21:15
  Meredith: Oh my gosh, you
• 21:16
  Stefanie: ain't nobody wanna see this skinny dipping.
• 21:18
  Stefanie: These works that would've worked for me in prison.
• 21:22
  Meredith: Stop.
• 21:23
  Meredith: These stories always leave me with more questions than answers though.
• 21:27
  Stefanie: I know.
• 21:28
  Stefanie: And like, you know, dude was just like drooling and like,
• 21:30
  Meredith: as he was mesmerized.
• 21:32
  Meredith: Oh yeah.
• 21:33
  Stefanie: Like he, he's like probably like a super creeper dude.
• 21:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 21:36
  Meredith: Who wonder whose idea?
• 21:39
  Meredith: See, I can't even go down these trains of thought because now I'm like,
• 21:43
  Stefanie: Who thought of it,
• 21:44
  Meredith: right?
• 21:44
  Stefanie: Was, she like, I'm gonna take off my clothes,
• 21:46
  Meredith: who was the mastermind?
• 21:48
  Meredith: You know, like, whatever.
• 21:49
  Stefanie: But dude, they didn't get arrested.
• 21:52
  Meredith: So how did they find out?
• 21:53
  Stefanie: Well, he called the cops
• 21:54
  Meredith: and he told'em the whole story.
• 21:56
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 21:56
  Stefanie: And he named, I mean he named the people, they know who it is.
• 21:58
  Stefanie: They didn't arrest them.
• 21:59
  Meredith: Wonder.
• 22:01
  Meredith: No,
• 22:01
  Stefanie: no evidence.
• 22:05
  Meredith: Oh, man.
• 22:06
  Meredith: But you know, he tried to invite her to church and get her right, but
• 22:10
  Stefanie: he needs to get himself right.
• 22:12
  Meredith: You're probably, yeah, agreed.
• 22:13
  Meredith: Agreed.
• 22:15
  Meredith: They need to,
• 22:15
  Stefanie: that was his like, you know, bless his heart.
• 22:18
  Meredith: Right?
• 22:19
  Meredith: The Southern saying,
• 22:21
  Stefanie: he got taken.
• 22:21
  Stefanie: So then he, he made up a story that he invited her to church.
• 22:24
  Meredith: You know, he was, he didn't invited her to church.
• 22:25
  Stefanie: He was inviting her to his bed.
• 22:27
  Meredith: Okay, here's my story.
• 22:29
  Meredith: All right.
• 22:30
  Meredith: This is outta Berry Hill, Tennessee, which I have no idea where that is.
• 22:33
  Meredith: Um, and this is W K R N.
• 22:36
  Stefanie: Oh, I think that was the same station.
• 22:38
  Meredith: Great.
• 22:40
  Meredith: I did not even pick up on that, but that's pretty amazing.
• 22:43
  Meredith: Okay, so Robbery Suspect ran outta gas during their low speed chase.
• 22:48
  Stefanie: I saw this one.
• 22:49
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 22:50
  Meredith: So did you read it Uhhuh A little bit.
• 22:51
  Meredith: Okay.
• 22:52
  Meredith: So this was, um, this happened on a Monday, um, on Eighth Avenue South.
• 22:58
  Meredith: A man identified as Richard ewi.
• 23:01
  Meredith: Pretended to have a gun.
• 23:02
  Meredith: So he flashed the clerk a message and then went behind the counter.
• 23:06
  Meredith: The message was written in dark magic marker and read quick and easy.
• 23:10
  Meredith: Gimme the cash.
• 23:12
  Stefanie: Quick and easy.
• 23:12
  Stefanie: Like the girl on the last,
• 23:13
  Meredith: yeah, maybe they're cousins.
• 23:15
  Meredith: This Tennessee, um, surveillance footage showed this dude, I'm having a hard time with my W's today.
• 23:21
  Meredith: Ooh.
• 23:22
  Meredith: They just popped up his picture.
• 23:24
  Stefanie: I saw the picture too.
• 23:25
  Stefanie: I was like, oh God.
• 23:25
  Meredith: Okay.
• 23:26
  Meredith: So he was stealing cigarettes and stuffing his pockets with the cash for the register.
• 23:30
  Meredith: He had his hands in the pocket like a gun.
• 23:32
  Meredith: he also stole lottery tickets because why not?
• 23:36
  Meredith: Uh, on the way out.
• 23:37
  Meredith: So he ran to his minivan that was parked at the car wash nearby.
• 23:41
  Meredith: Like, I can picture this.
• 23:42
  Meredith: This sounds like a local story, right?
• 23:45
  Meredith: I mean like super.
• 23:46
  Meredith: Then he drove onto the main road with no headlights directly in front of a Berry Hill officer.
• 23:52
  Meredith: The officer turned on her lights.
• 23:54
  Meredith: And the van continued to drive south at 30 miles an hour.
• 23:58
  Meredith: Yes.
• 23:58
  Meredith: Within a minute, the van pulled over to the side of the road where the van had run out of gas.
• 24:04
  Meredith: The officers converged using their squad car, loudspeakers, ordered the driver to get out and walked backwards.
• 24:09
  Meredith: what's the problem?
• 24:10
  Meredith: And he said, why are you guys jamming me up like this?
• 24:16
  Meredith: They worked together with the, another law enforcement agency and they took a second man, and woman into custody without incident.
• 24:23
  Meredith: anyway, I'm not gonna read the rest of it, but.
• 24:26
  Meredith: You got a plan, bro.
• 24:29
  Meredith: Do you know?
• 24:30
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 24:31
  Meredith: You have no words right now, so.
• 24:33
  Stefanie: So they left the pool?
• 24:34
  Meredith: Yeah, they left the pool.
• 24:36
  Meredith: They went, we're like, you know what, let's get some cigarettes and Lotto tickets and we'll jump back in the minivan and head back out, but we're not gonna go fast.
• 24:43
  Meredith: Yes.
• 24:44
  Meredith: We are not gonna get gas cuz you know gas is expensive right now.
• 24:48
  Stefanie: Take the freaking$10 you got from the cash register,
• 24:51
  Meredith: scratch your lottery tickets real quick.
• 24:53
  Meredith: Trade them in.
• 24:54
  Meredith: Yeah, you're stealing everything else.
• 24:56
  Meredith: There's multiple people involved.
• 24:58
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 24:59
  Meredith: We shouldn't have to tell them how to do this.
• 25:01
  Meredith: No.
• 25:01
  Meredith: While you're robbing them with your note written in Sharpie,
• 25:04
  Stefanie: they need to watch, more true crime.
• 25:06
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 25:08
  Meredith: But you know, they could have been multitasking.
• 25:09
  Meredith: Yes.
• 25:09
  Meredith: Somebody could have been doing the, you know, stealing some fuel while somebody's I know, I know.
• 25:14
  Meredith: These people, they just
• 25:16
  Stefanie: they don't know
• 25:17
  Meredith: cause they're dumb.
• 25:18
  Meredith: Yep.
• 25:18
  Meredith: And that's fine.
• 25:19
  Meredith: They can stay dumb.
• 25:20
  Meredith: Oh, I have a dumb story on something I did LA last week.
• 25:23
  Stefanie: I love dumb stories.
• 25:24
  Stefanie: Let's hear it.
• 25:24
  Meredith: I have a lot of them, but I'll share this one cause it was pretty funny, Mr.
• 25:28
  Meredith: Rex.
• 25:29
  Meredith: Um, so, I have a friend whose daughter is playing softball for the high school and she posted on social media.
• 25:37
  Meredith: She's got a.
• 25:38
  Meredith: Strange last name.
• 25:40
  Meredith: It's one that, I have like three of'em on my Facebook and social media's, and it's like husband, wife, and sister or whatever, you know?
• 25:46
  Meredith: Um, yes.
• 25:47
  Meredith: You know.
• 25:48
  Meredith: Um,
• 25:49
  Stefanie: you said, you said husband?
• 25:50
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 25:52
  Meredith: Um, so there was a video posted, I glanced at the last name and it was, She's hitting it out of the park or something like that for the softball game.
• 26:01
  Meredith: And I was like, oh man, that's awesome.
• 26:03
  Meredith: So it was on their story.
• 26:04
  Meredith: So it's not like I commented on like a post, but you know, the story goes to the dms, so I did like a heart symbol.
• 26:11
  Meredith: And, you know, just the heart to love it.
• 26:13
  Meredith: And I think I sent a heart.
• 26:16
  Meredith: And anyway, it was the husband, so I messaged the wife and I was like, I texted her.
• 26:25
  Meredith: I was like, I am not trying to jump in your husband's dms.
• 26:28
  Meredith: I just glanced or whatever.
• 26:30
  Meredith: And you know, I was like, DUH, hopefully he's not one of the people who reads their dms, you know, because you get all kinds of messages then.
• 26:37
  Meredith: Right?
• 26:38
  Stefanie: You can you delete it?
• 26:39
  Meredith: No, you can't.
• 26:40
  Meredith: Well, I don't know.
• 26:40
  Meredith: I didn't even try, just avoided it.
• 26:42
  Meredith: Hope it would go away.
• 26:43
  Meredith: But, so the next day, like, um,
• 26:45
  Stefanie: was it on Facebook?
• 26:46
  Meredith: Yeah,
• 26:47
  Stefanie: because you can delete, messages now,
• 26:49
  Meredith: but even after you've sent it,
• 26:51
  Stefanie: yeah,
• 26:51
  Meredith: it'll just say Unsend
• 26:52
  Stefanie: Uhhuh.
• 26:52
  Meredith: Does that not look creepier than somebody sending or whatever
• 26:55
  Stefanie: you just say, Hey, sorry, you thought you were your wife Well that,
• 26:58
  Meredith: yeah, that probably would've been good.
• 27:00
  Meredith: So I texted her, I was like, please tell him my bad did not mean to whatever.
• 27:04
  Meredith: So the next day, I think he, it came in his regular feed and I liked it or whatever, and he was like, she told me that what you did.
• 27:14
  Meredith: And I was like, oh, I was hoping that, you know, it would just like go unnoticed.
• 27:19
  Meredith: But it did not,
• 27:20
  Stefanie: it was good dinner conversation, I'm sure.
• 27:23
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 27:23
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 27:25
  Meredith: I have a lot of stories, like, I don't even wanna talk about it anymore right now, but,
• 27:28
  Stefanie: did you ump this.
• 27:29
  Meredith: I did.
• 27:30
  Meredith: How
• 27:30
  Stefanie: was it?
• 27:31
  Meredith: I want to quit and not Cause it's hard.
• 27:37
  Meredith: But, cause you know, my thing was I didn't want to cry and I've almost cried and it's nobody's fault but my own because I made a bad call and it was a really bad call, but you kind of have to own it.
• 27:51
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 27:52
  Meredith: And it's also a little more than I thought it was gonna be.
• 27:55
  Meredith: So, you know, my whole thing was I'm just counting how many pitches.
• 27:57
  Meredith: No, I have to call str, I have to call outs and like time and all this stuff.
• 28:02
  Meredith: Which again, not hard.
• 28:05
  Meredith: But you could still make a mistake.
• 28:07
  Meredith: So I made this call and it was a terrible call while the batter was running the bases and like the whole crap, like both sides of the bleachers were like, That say pretty much.
• 28:19
  Meredith: And I was like, and it was the third out, so everybody just kind of stood there.
• 28:24
  Meredith: And there was like, after, you know, the, the booing and the heckling, um, I was like, crap.
• 28:30
  Meredith: I was like, well, I guess I just kind of, kind of own it.
• 28:32
  Stefanie: You gotta be confident.
• 28:33
  Meredith: And I was like, change'em up.
• 28:36
  Meredith: And everybody just kinda looked and shifted the batters and the field players.
• 28:40
  Meredith: So, I mean, it is, I just, it was just a bad call and it's just, What's so bad about it is I knew what the, like I mentally knew the right, so I think I called her out.
• 28:51
  Meredith: I called her out and she was safe.
• 28:52
  Stefanie: Oh, and, and it just came out wrong.
• 28:55
  Meredith: It just came out wrong.
• 28:56
  Meredith: Like I knew she was safe.
• 28:57
  Meredith: And you know the tie, well, I don't know if you know this or not, but, So a tie goes to the runner.
• 29:01
  Meredith: If it's close, the runner wins.
• 29:03
  Meredith: Like you give them the benefit of the doubt.
• 29:04
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 29:05
  Meredith: And I caught her out and like I knew, I was like, God, I didn't mean to say that, but it had came out and like I said, I'm trying to be boss babe over here and just like driving them up.
• 29:16
  Meredith: Let's go.
• 29:17
  Meredith: Luckily the game was not a close game.
• 29:19
  Meredith: It was, you know, there was plenty of scores between two.
• 29:22
  Meredith: Two.
• 29:23
  Stefanie: It didn't affect the end results.
• 29:24
  Meredith: No, no it did not.
• 29:26
  Meredith: But, um, so yeah.
• 29:28
  Meredith: I'm like, crap.
• 29:29
  Stefanie: So dylan had his lacrosse game.
• 29:34
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 29:34
  Stefanie: Um, and it was senior night, so of course like the varsity played after them and Yeah.
• 29:38
  Stefanie: so we have one RFU refs all the time in our area.
• 29:42
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 29:42
  Stefanie: And then there's like two that kind of switch out.
• 29:45
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 29:45
  Stefanie: And so this other man was roughing and he's gotta be fit in his fifties.
• 29:49
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 29:50
  Stefanie: I would say.
• 29:51
  Stefanie: Maybe a little mid fifties maybe.
• 29:53
  Stefanie: And when I tell you like I was only there for the last, I don't know, handful of minutes cuz I, you know, Dylan wanted to say after his, and I was not sitting in the cold.
• 30:03
  Stefanie: Right?
• 30:04
  Stefanie: Right.
• 30:04
  Stefanie: So I came home and then I went and picked him up and I got, when I got there, there were still however many minutes left.
• 30:08
  Stefanie: And I'm like, I could not believe the, the bad calls that were being made on the field.
• 30:15
  Stefanie: and it was a close game.
• 30:16
  Stefanie: Like it Oh, that sucks.
• 30:17
  Stefanie: It was like, I think it ended nine, eight and Clover won.
• 30:19
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 30:19
  Stefanie: But, um, it was, it was bad.
• 30:22
  Stefanie: And like that sucks.
• 30:23
  Stefanie: So, I mean, the, and all of the parents are like screaming at the refs.
• 30:28
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 30:28
  Stefanie: And, um, I'm, I was thinking about you and all, um, so I'm, I, you know, go get Dylan and, and one of his, I was driving home and we're standing there and this kid, he's probably like 20, right.
• 30:42
  Stefanie: genuinely asking the ref like, Hey, when you made this call Yeah.
• 30:46
  Stefanie: why did it go this way?
• 30:47
  Stefanie: genuinely asking, like, and then that should be okay.
• 30:49
  Stefanie: And this dude just started running his mouth like the ref.
• 30:54
  Stefanie: And I, I get like he had a, it was a rough game, like Yeah, but I mean, it was their own fault.
• 30:58
  Stefanie: It was a rough game cuz they, it was bad.
• 30:59
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 31:00
  Stefanie: He starts running his mouth as he's walking away.
• 31:02
  Stefanie: And this 20 year something year old kid was like,
• 31:05
  Meredith: was he bald?
• 31:06
  Meredith: The ref?
• 31:07
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 31:07
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 31:08
  Stefanie: Oh, I don't know he had a hat on him Uhhuh.
• 31:09
  Meredith: Okay.
• 31:10
  Meredith: But I said that like, there's only one bald ref in the world, so I would know this guy, but we had a similar experience in basketball and I just was curious.
• 31:18
  Meredith: So he just was running his mouth to the 20 year old?
• 31:20
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 31:20
  Stefanie: And I'm like, oh my God, there's gonna be a fight.
• 31:22
  Stefanie: Like, yeah.
• 31:22
  Stefanie: Because dude's like, you wanna go?
• 31:23
  Stefanie: Let's like the 20 year old, trying to fight the dude, dudes walk away one of his friends is, Just stay over here.
• 31:28
  Stefanie: Don't.
• 31:29
  Stefanie: Right.
• 31:29
  Stefanie: Go after him.
• 31:30
  Stefanie: And I'm like, oh my God.
• 31:30
  Stefanie: There's gonna be Dylan.
• 31:31
  Stefanie: Like, let's see a fight.
• 31:33
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 31:34
  Meredith: But, uh, you know, we know what, what that could escalate to.
• 31:37
  Meredith: Yes.
• 31:37
  Meredith: We hear too many stories.
• 31:38
  Meredith: Yes.
• 31:38
  Meredith: And the thing of it is, is.
• 31:40
  Meredith: You know, there's a fine line.
• 31:42
  Meredith: I'm not saying this me as a nut because I am not in that world at all, but there's a fine line between quote, letting them play, like letting them, it's a physical game, you know?
• 31:52
  Meredith: So many of these sports let them play and also control the game.
• 31:55
  Meredith: And when they lose control, that's when it gets scary.
• 31:58
  Meredith: And that happened to us this weekend.
• 32:00
  Meredith: Not Jackson's team, but another basketball team where the rest were losing.
• 32:04
  Meredith: They were letting the kids be physical and which again, it's fine, but there's that line that you have to draw with it so they don't, nobody get hurt.
• 32:12
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:13
  Meredith: And then, you know, the crowd gets hyped up even, you know, in an aggressive way.
• 32:17
  Meredith: And then that affects the players and they are more angry and then they do more physicality, uh, whatever.
• 32:25
  Meredith: I don't know, but.
• 32:26
  Meredith: I feel ya.
• 32:27
  Meredith: So I'm off this week from my umping, but since it is spring break,
• 32:32
  Stefanie: you can regroup.
• 32:33
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:34
  Meredith: Well, and I might, I don't know.
• 32:35
  Meredith: I'm, I'm trying to figure out, because, so Jackson's doing track and field.
• 32:39
  Meredith: He does the field.
• 32:40
  Meredith: He does not run, so he does the throwing.
• 32:42
  Meredith: Vince, I don't know if we've talked about this.
• 32:44
  Meredith: Shaley.
• 32:44
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 32:44
  Meredith: Okay.
• 32:45
  Meredith: Um, and he's actually doing Really,
• 32:48
  Stefanie: I saw, yeah, I saw your.
• 32:50
  Stefanie: Like breaking records.
• 32:52
  Meredith: Yeah, like I'm, I'm really speechless.
• 32:54
  Meredith: So he's, he's broken record records, records for his school, um, and his broken records in,
• 33:01
  Stefanie: went to England
• 33:03
  Meredith: apparently.
• 33:04
  Meredith: Um, so he's broken the records for shot put and discus both at his school.
• 33:09
  Meredith: Awesome.
• 33:10
  Meredith: Um, which is crazy to me.
• 33:11
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 33:12
  Meredith: I have no idea how he could do what he does.
• 33:13
  Meredith: But anyway, so the track meets are Tuesdays and Thursdays and those are the nights that I've been umping.
• 33:20
  Meredith: Oh.
• 33:21
  Meredith: So I don't really wanna miss anymore cause he is having such a great season.
• 33:25
  Meredith: I mean, I get there and then I have to leave a little bit early, but anyway, so we'll see.
• 33:28
  Meredith: But yeah, it's really fun to see him doing so good.
• 33:31
  Meredith: And it, what I like about it for him is that he's not, and he's working at it, don't get me wrong, but he's not like stressed about it.
• 33:37
  Meredith: He's just enjoying, yeah.
• 33:39
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 33:39
  Meredith: So that's, that's pretty cool.
• 33:41
  Stefanie: Let us move over for you.
• 33:42
  Stefanie: Rex.
• 33:43
  Meredith: Rex needed under my dog's, sent under the, under my desk too.
• 33:46
  Meredith: I don't understand.
• 33:47
  Stefanie: He just likes to be near.
• 33:49
  Meredith: Yeah, no, I get it.
• 33:50
  Meredith: I just don't like Right.
• 33:51
  Meredith: We, she, I still love him.
• 33:53
  Meredith: I still love him.
• 33:54
  Meredith: Switching subjects.
• 33:56
  Meredith: Okay.
• 33:57
  Meredith: Did you try these?
• 33:58
  Meredith: I did.
• 33:59
  Meredith: Okay.
• 34:00
  Meredith: So these are called facial smoothies.
• 34:04
  Meredith: I bought'em off of Amazon and I was looking for something like a Botox sticker to put on at night to kind of help smooth out some of my, yeah, I got'em right there.
• 34:16
  Meredith: Wrinkles, I got'em there.
• 34:17
  Meredith: Mine are really bad.
• 34:18
  Meredith: But anyway, so I bought these and I tried'em a couple times and um, What did you think before I continue my conversation?
• 34:27
  Stefanie: I only did it one once.
• 34:28
  Meredith: So did you wear'em overnight?
• 34:29
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 34:30
  Meredith: Okay.
• 34:30
  Meredith: Where'd you put it?
• 34:31
  Stefanie: Um, on my forehead.
• 34:32
  Meredith: Did you notice any difference, um, after you took it off?
• 34:37
  Meredith: Uh,
• 34:39
  Stefanie: A little bit.
• 34:40
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 34:40
  Stefanie: I think.
• 34:41
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 34:41
  Stefanie: I don't know, maybe I'm just wishing it was a different, I'm thinking maybe if you use it over time.
• 34:48
  Stefanie: Time maybe.
• 34:49
  Meredith: Well, as I was reading the back of this, and I've used them a few times at night and I like put like three up here on my forehead.
• 34:55
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 34:55
  Stefanie: I had'em like going up and down.
• 34:56
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 34:56
  Meredith: And then I was like, I had like a couple more on my sheet and I was like, lemme just put'em everywhere.
• 35:00
  Meredith: but I think these are supposed to be worn.
• 35:03
  Meredith: Under makeup.
• 35:04
  Stefanie: Really?
• 35:06
  Meredith: I think so.
• 35:06
  Meredith: Like I, I don't think they're supposed to like be a bug.
• 35:10
  Stefanie: Well, so I read something about the Frownies, cause we talked about the frownies.
• 35:14
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Stefanie: And it said that it's supposed to train your face, like your face muscles.
• 35:18
  Stefanie: Not okay.
• 35:19
  Stefanie: And so that's probably, it's supposed to smooth'em out cause it's like, you know, like whatever.
• 35:23
  Stefanie: But it's also supposed to train your face not to
• 35:25
  Meredith: then That sounds like that's what this, so it, it reshapes your skin by holding it firmly in flat position to train it smooth.
• 35:31
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:32
  Meredith: Okay.
• 35:33
  Meredith: So that's wearing him at night is okay.
• 35:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 35:36
  Meredith: Well, and I follow this girl on TikTok, I can't remember, she's not a girl.
• 35:39
  Meredith: She's actually like in her fifties.
• 35:40
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 35:41
  Meredith: And makeup is,
• 35:42
  Stefanie: she'll be happy to be called a girl.
• 35:44
  Meredith: Right.
• 35:45
  Meredith: But she.
• 35:46
  Meredith: Um, tapes her face and she pulls all, I'm gonna have to show you her, like, she puts tape here on like above her ears, and then it pulls and tightens and lifts, and then she puts on makeup over it.
• 35:59
  Stefanie: It's painful.
• 35:59
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 36:01
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 36:01
  Meredith: But she, after she puts her makeup on after that, She looks probably 22.
• 36:07
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Meredith: And she is not like, even the way she does it with her lips like makeup, but I mean, she's like an artist.
• 36:14
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 36:14
  Meredith: Where she can make herself look like that.
• 36:16
  Meredith: And there's people that do.
• 36:16
  Meredith: So what I, I do when I see, yeah.
• 36:18
  Meredith: No, me neither.
• 36:20
  Meredith: Um, what I do when I find those people is I always show Jackson, like the before and the after, I'm like, makeup.
• 36:25
  Meredith: It's like from the devil.
• 36:30
  Stefanie: I dunno if it was Brandon told Dylan, take a girl to the waterpark on your first date.
• 36:34
  Stefanie: Not to see her in the bathing suit, but just see her makeup, makeup washes off.
• 36:39
  Meredith: That's a good idea.
• 36:40
  Meredith: That is a great idea.
• 36:41
  Meredith: That's pretty smart.
• 36:42
  Meredith: Well, we'll try some more of these, um, smoothies.
• 36:45
  Stefanie: Well, I, and I thought, well, this would be kind of cool to do like a TikTok, maybe buy it type of thing.
• 36:50
  Stefanie: With all like the, the goofy stuff on there.
• 36:52
  Meredith: That's a good idea.
• 36:53
  Stefanie: I'm not a makeup person.
• 36:55
  Stefanie: I wish I was.
• 36:56
  Stefanie: I am not, I cannot do makeup.
• 36:57
  Stefanie: I tried try, but depend it on it.
• 36:59
  Stefanie: Then I look at myself and I'm like, that just doesn't look great.
• 37:01
  Stefanie: No, I look like I'm a raccoon.
• 37:02
  Stefanie: yeah, I think of every everywhere and no.
• 37:06
  Meredith: Well, no matter what mascara I use, it's always under.
• 37:09
  Meredith: If I use, it's always under here.
• 37:11
  Meredith: So I gave up on that.
• 37:12
  Meredith: have
• 37:12
  Stefanie: you ever tried fake eyelashes?
• 37:13
  Meredith: Yes.
• 37:14
  Stefanie: Did you like him?
• 37:16
  Meredith: Yes, but I feel like everybody's laughing at me.
• 37:19
  Stefanie: I bought the magnetic ones, like where you put like the magnetic Oh, the liner.
• 37:22
  Meredith: That's what I have too.
• 37:23
  Meredith: Uhhuh
• 37:24
  Stefanie: And I, I liked it, but like, it felt like heavy almost.
• 37:27
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 37:27
  Stefanie: On my eyes.
• 37:28
  Stefanie: and I was gonna wear'em for my sister's wedding and I was like, oh my God, what if it falls off?
• 37:33
  Stefanie: I'm like, you like, that's.
• 37:36
  Meredith: That is funny.
• 37:37
  Stefanie: And so I was like, no, I can't do this cause I'm gonna have like spiders.
• 37:41
  Meredith: Or what if you did cry or you hugged somebody and they knock your face and your eyelashes,
• 37:46
  Stefanie: it's like stuck on their suit.
• 37:47
  Meredith: Uhhuh, it's like finding another magnetic piece to whatever too.
• 37:51
  Meredith: That's great.
• 37:52
  Meredith: Well, I did freak the kids out one time.
• 37:54
  Meredith: I can't remember which of the boys were with us at dinner one night, but I had'em on and they were.
• 37:58
  Meredith: They're not magnet or they're not fake or whatever.
• 38:00
  Meredith: I was like, yeah, they are.
• 38:01
  Meredith: And I went and I took'em off and they were like, ah, but I do like the magnetic ones.
• 38:07
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:07
  Meredith: We should wear'em sometime.
• 38:08
  Meredith: Let's wear'em next week.
• 38:09
  Meredith: Okay.
• 38:10
  Stefanie: I, I'll flutter my eyes.
• 38:11
  Meredith: Did you, I think we just need to get used to them, they're everywhere these days.
• 38:15
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 38:16
  Meredith: So it's not a big deal, but I just feel like it's one of those things that makes everybody's like, why she wearing them, you know what I mean?
• 38:20
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 38:21
  Meredith: It's crazy.
• 38:22
  Meredith: Um, did you watch any of the women's basketball for ncaa?
• 38:25
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 38:26
  Meredith: So LSU won last night.
• 38:28
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 38:28
  Meredith: Which is Louisiana State.
• 38:30
  Meredith: Just for those people that are listening that don't know, that aren't familiar.
• 38:35
  Meredith: Um, and I didn't watch a lot of it, but I did watch some of that last game.
• 38:38
  Meredith: And, um, LSU had a girl and their other teams might have as well, and I just didn't catch'em.
• 38:43
  Meredith: But she was playing basketball, fake eyelashes on.
• 38:47
  Meredith: I could barely walk from one end of my house to the other wearing them, and she's out there bawling out.
• 38:54
  Meredith: I was like, oh, okay, okay, good for her.
• 38:58
  Meredith: So LSU won.
• 38:59
  Meredith: So they won.
• 38:59
  Meredith: The woman to the women's
• 39:00
  Stefanie: It was the eyelashes.
• 39:02
  Meredith: She did.
• 39:03
  Meredith: She did.
• 39:04
  Stefanie: It was her good luck charm,
• 39:05
  Meredith: I guess.
• 39:06
  Stefanie: Um, speaking of good luck.
• 39:08
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 39:08
  Stefanie: You know, um, Brandon, you said, tell me that I was bad luck in a casino and on our honeymoon we went to Aruba Uhhuh and so he was in the casino for like ever and I was out at the beach.
• 39:19
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 39:19
  Stefanie: While he was doing the casino.
• 39:20
  Meredith: That sounds perfect.
• 39:21
  Meredith: Actually,
• 39:21
  Stefanie: I don't, like, I don't gamble.
• 39:23
  Stefanie: Like it's just not my thing.
• 39:24
  Meredith: Me neither.
• 39:24
  Meredith: Okay.
• 39:24
  Stefanie: No enjoyment from it.
• 39:25
  Stefanie: Right?
• 39:25
  Stefanie: Like get mad, but
• 39:26
  Meredith: give me a beach.
• 39:27
  Stefanie: I'm a sore loser.
• 39:28
  Meredith: Yeah, very much so.
• 39:29
  Meredith: Me too.
• 39:29
  Stefanie: But I can chill at a beach all day long.
• 39:31
  Stefanie: Sure.
• 39:31
  Stefanie: I go in there to see how much longer and he's like, you're bad luck.
• 39:35
  Stefanie: Go go.
• 39:36
  Stefanie: And like he, okay, he shood me out of the casino.
• 39:39
  Stefanie: He came back and he had made like enough money to cover a whole trip.
• 39:42
  Stefanie: So I was like, okay, I will stay out of the casino if you want me to stay on the beach.
• 39:46
  Stefanie: Right?
• 39:46
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 39:47
  Meredith: Oh, that's, that's good that he did that though.
• 39:49
  Stefanie: Yes, but I'm bad luck for Brandon at a casino.
• 39:53
  Stefanie: I can't even win my money back on a scratch off.
• 39:55
  Stefanie: Like, I, I don't, I don't do either.
• 39:56
  Stefanie: I won$4.
• 39:58
  Stefanie: So you buy the ticket, like the, I don't even know what they're called.
• 40:02
  Stefanie: This is how much I don't know about it.
• 40:04
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 40:05
  Stefanie: And they print it out.
• 40:06
  Stefanie: You know what I'm talking about?
• 40:06
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 40:06
  Stefanie: Is that like the Mega Millions or whatever?
• 40:08
  Stefanie: It's, and then you can go back to the store and they'll scan it.
• 40:11
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 40:11
  Stefanie: This ticket had been on my refrigerator with a magnet, you know, for like six months at least.
• 40:16
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 40:17
  Stefanie: And I finally took it like three weeks ago and it was like$4.
• 40:19
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 40:21
  Stefanie: Big winner.
• 40:21
  Stefanie: She was like, do you wanna buy more?
• 40:22
  Stefanie: I was like, Nope.
• 40:23
  Stefanie: I'm tapping out.
• 40:24
  Stefanie: I'm done.
• 40:24
  Stefanie: Well, Brandon had bought.
• 40:26
  Stefanie: One day, and this is a couple years ago, and he handed me one to scratch in the car.
• 40:30
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 40:30
  Stefanie: And it was a hundred dollars winner but if I had picked which one to pull from, it would not have won.
• 40:35
  Stefanie: but I was like, oh, it's a winner, it's a hundred dollars.
• 40:37
  Stefanie: He's like, oh, gimme that.
• 40:38
  Stefanie: But I scratched
• 40:40
  Meredith: the physical labor of scratching it.
• 40:42
  Stefanie: He's like, I'm just gonna go buy beer for the both of us.
• 40:45
  Stefanie: We were on our way to a party.
• 40:46
  Stefanie: Well, you know,
• 40:47
  Meredith: it was like, well went to good use, I guess.
• 40:52
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 40:52
  Meredith: so what else, what else going.
• 40:54
  Stefanie: Really?
• 40:55
  Stefanie: Um, I don't know I got a whole lots this week with Dylan gone.
• 40:58
  Stefanie: He's kind of my, my driving force.
• 41:02
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:02
  Stefanie: Of my daily.
• 41:03
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 41:04
  Stefanie: I feel you that.
• 41:05
  Stefanie: How did, um, Jackson do in school?
• 41:07
  Stefanie: Um, with, um, report card?
• 41:09
  Meredith: He did.
• 41:10
  Meredith: Oh, he did?
• 41:10
  Meredith: Okay.
• 41:10
  Meredith: I was like, what, what happened?
• 41:11
  Meredith: What he did.
• 41:12
  Meredith: Okay.
• 41:13
  Meredith: Um, he, he usually gets A's and B's and he said, I made the B on a roll.
• 41:18
  Meredith: I was like, baby, I don't think there's really just like a B on a roll.
• 41:21
  Meredith: And he was like, well, A's and B's, but you know what I mean?
• 41:23
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 41:23
  Meredith: Um, so he did good.
• 41:25
  Meredith: He's, I've heard some, you know, uh, what are they called?
• 41:30
  Meredith: Grades almost said scores.
• 41:32
  Meredith: I've heard some scores, some grades that are, Like a 12.
• 41:36
  Stefanie: Oh my gosh.
• 41:37
  Meredith: And I'm like,
• 41:38
  Stefanie: like for
• 41:38
  the
• 41:39
  Stefanie: quarter?
• 41:39
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 41:40
  Meredith: Oh, wow.
• 41:41
  Meredith: That's, that's crazy.
• 41:43
  Meredith: But, um,
• 41:44
  Stefanie: oh my gosh.
• 41:44
  Meredith: Luckily that's in like electives.
• 41:46
  Meredith: Oh.
• 41:46
  Meredith: Or what do they call natural exploratories?
• 41:49
  Meredith: Yeah, I agree.
• 41:50
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 41:50
  Stefanie: Those are like your easy A's.
• 41:51
  Meredith: I don't understand those.
• 41:53
  Meredith: And I try to ask, you know, when I'm, when I'm talking to the kids, like, how'd you do?
• 41:56
  Meredith: Why do you have a, you know, a 17 in art, whatever.
• 42:01
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 42:01
  Meredith: I don't get it.
• 42:02
  Meredith: But, um, so one thing in middle school, I don't know if you remember this or not, but they take PE for one semester.
• 42:09
  Meredith: Every year.
• 42:10
  Meredith: So Jackson had PE his first semester every year, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade.
• 42:14
  Meredith: Um, and then he was supposed to have the second half of this eighth grade year was supposed to have movement or dance or whatever it's called, which I was looking forward to it.
• 42:24
  Stefanie: Dylan liked it.
• 42:24
  Stefanie: Like
• 42:24
  Meredith: did he?
• 42:25
  Meredith: Yeah, he had, was he in the class that did Thriller?
• 42:27
  Meredith: That year did a thriller dance.
• 42:29
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 42:29
  Meredith: Okay.
• 42:29
  Meredith: So,
• 42:29
  Stefanie: oh, he might, I don't, they did at Michael Jackson's.
• 42:31
  Stefanie: I don't Okay.
• 42:31
  Stefanie: Know if it was Thriller though.
• 42:32
  Meredith: Well, Jackson was not opposed to it.
• 42:35
  Meredith: He was like, well, whatever.
• 42:36
  Meredith: I mean, I'll own it.
• 42:37
  Meredith: Cool.
• 42:38
  Meredith: Um, but they overbooked the class, like they just had schedule flub ups, you know, so they came in there was like, so who wants to do PE again?
• 42:46
  Meredith: And went up again.
• 42:49
  Meredith: He's in PE again, which he has always wanted to do.
• 42:51
  Meredith: Cause he's like, PE at the end of the year is fun because the weather gets nicer and they get to go outside, do more stuff outside.
• 42:57
  Meredith: Yes.
• 42:57
  Meredith: So he's excited about that.
• 42:59
  Stefanie: Well, Dylan um, wasn't thrilled about dance, but And I, I will check with him before I air this, but, and with the dyslexia, having to do a second language Oh, is like crazy hard and Oh yeah.
• 43:13
  Stefanie: I'm sure.
• 43:14
  Stefanie: Um, you know, it's hard enough with English.
• 43:16
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:16
  Stefanie: Um, like to do like a written test, but to do a second language is like bananas.
• 43:21
  Stefanie: So they kept giving him a language.
• 43:24
  Stefanie: Every year.
• 43:25
  Stefanie: So I went in there and I'm like, well, what else can he take?
• 43:27
  Stefanie: Like, what else is there?
• 43:28
  Stefanie: Because this isn't gonna work.
• 43:29
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:29
  Stefanie: Like, I'm not setting him up to be that stressed out again, like he was in elementary school.
• 43:33
  Stefanie: Right.
• 43:34
  Stefanie: And, um, so they put him in dance and I, he enjoyed it.
• 43:38
  Stefanie: Like Monty was in the class.
• 43:39
  Stefanie: Good.
• 43:40
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:40
  Stefanie: And so like he had a friends in there.
• 43:42
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 43:43
  Stefanie: Um, and there's like, half the class was guys, it wasn't like, it was like all girls and him.
• 43:47
  Stefanie: Right.
• 43:47
  Meredith: And it's not like they're wearing tights and tutus and bound issues.
• 43:49
  Stefanie: He had, um, black sweatpants and Right.
• 43:52
  Stefanie: White tee.
• 43:52
  Stefanie: Like a,
• 43:53
  Meredith: uh, um, do have a question for you about his dyslexia?
• 43:57
  Meredith: So I believe they do have to have a second language to graduate.
• 44:01
  Stefanie: They don't need it to graduate if they're not going to a four year school.
• 44:04
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 44:05
  Stefanie: So I checked, um, with the schools and they said, sign language is supposed to be very easy for people with dyslexia to learn.
• 44:13
  Stefanie: Oh.
• 44:13
  Stefanie: And so, if we go, we go to the community college.
• 44:17
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:17
  Stefanie: Um, over the summer.
• 44:18
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:18
  Stefanie: Or, um, with the school he's going to next year.
• 44:21
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:21
  Stefanie: He's in dual enrollment.
• 44:22
  Stefanie: Um, if they offer it, he can take sign language.
• 44:25
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 44:25
  Stefanie: As his second language versus doing Spanish French or whatever, whatever German or, yeah.
• 44:30
  Stefanie: and while I think he could probably pick up a second language very easily just by like, sound uhhuh, by like listening Uhhuh Uhhuh, the written part And I'm, I, he's capable.
• 44:40
  Stefanie: He's got, he doesn't have an IEP anymore.
• 44:41
  Stefanie: They took it away that, yeah.
• 44:43
  Stefanie: Going into high school.
• 44:44
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 44:44
  Stefanie: Um, because he met his, like, word for a minute.
• 44:46
  Stefanie: I'm like, dyslexia doesn't go away.
• 44:47
  Stefanie: Like it's a lifelong thing.
• 44:48
  Meredith: But he's learned how to accommodate and to work
• 44:51
  Stefanie: around it.
• 44:51
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 44:51
  Stefanie: Um, the, the vice principal at the middle school was very adamant.
• 44:54
  Stefanie: Like he was not staying on it for any reason.
• 44:57
  Stefanie: It was not a event.
• 44:58
  Stefanie: Very, you know, whatever.
• 44:59
  Stefanie: Anyway, so, um, that's a whole nother story I've noticed.
• 45:04
  Stefanie: I'm sitting here quietly, but, So this is his first year without an IEP Since second grade.
• 45:10
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 45:10
  Stefanie: And he's doing like he did, the only class he had trouble in was math in the first half of the year because a math teacher was never there.
• 45:16
  Stefanie: she was out with migraines Oh.
• 45:18
  Stefanie: Over half of the first semester.
• 45:19
  Stefanie: But his math teacher now for the second semester is amazing.
• 45:23
  Stefanie: Like he's got a high B
• 45:24
  Meredith: good.
• 45:24
  Meredith: and he did good this quarter.
• 45:26
  Stefanie: He, he did wonderful.
• 45:26
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 45:27
  Stefanie: He's on, he got, uh, a b honor roll or b honor roll, as would say.
• 45:31
  Meredith: So proud of our B students.
• 45:33
  Stefanie: Like I am not that mom, but like, you need to have all straight, like I, you try as hard as you can and as long as I know you're trying Right, I will.
• 45:40
  Stefanie: Whatever you bet is totally okay.
• 45:42
  Stefanie: And yeah, I've always had that, um, like I never put any pressure on him for grades.
• 45:47
  Stefanie: Mm-hmm.
• 45:47
  Stefanie: Because I knew it was a struggle.
• 45:48
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 45:48
  Stefanie: Um, he's super, super smart and he is.
• 45:51
  Stefanie: Very athletic and mm-hmm.
• 45:53
  Stefanie: He,
• 45:53
  Meredith: he's like a little entrepreneur too.
• 45:55
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 45:55
  Stefanie: Like he's, yeah.
• 45:56
  Stefanie: He's always trying to make money.
• 45:59
  Stefanie: Hes, but you know, and he's a great kid.
• 46:01
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 46:01
  Stefanie: And he's well-rounded.
• 46:02
  Stefanie: and I never put that pressure, uh, for grades ever.
• 46:05
  Stefanie: That's good.
• 46:06
  Stefanie: I never want him to have that extra level of he was already stressed out.
• 46:09
  Stefanie: Right.
• 46:09
  Stefanie: And there was never that extra layer.
• 46:11
  Stefanie: Um, he's his own worst critic.
• 46:13
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 46:13
  Stefanie: Um, I don't have to be a, a critic.
• 46:15
  Stefanie: Right.
• 46:15
  Stefanie: Um,
• 46:15
  Meredith: he knows.
• 46:16
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 46:16
  Meredith: Well, and you know, every kid is different with the kind of pressure they need or don't need.
• 46:21
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:21
  Meredith: We never told Jackson You have to get all A's or you're grounded.
• 46:25
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:25
  Meredith: But we knew that he had the potential.
• 46:27
  Meredith: Do good.
• 46:28
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:28
  Meredith: So, you know, that was kind of our standard.
• 46:30
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:31
  Meredith: Um, and he's always met it.
• 46:33
  Meredith: I mean, I know as the work gets harder and he gets older, he's in, um, algebra one G, uh, what's, I can't even algebra for one honors right now, whatever.
• 46:43
  Meredith: See, he does not get his intelligence from me.
• 46:46
  Meredith: Um, and he's actually pulled a, an A or B in that all year.
• 46:52
  Meredith: Now of course, there's some assignments that don't meet that criteria.
• 46:55
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 46:55
  Meredith: His, um, you know, quarterly and semester grades have always been an A r b, but I was like, okay bud, just do your best this year and don't, like you said, don't put that extra stress.
• 47:05
  Meredith: If you have to repeat it next year, you do.
• 47:07
  Meredith: But you know, just do your best and we'll see him.
• 47:09
  Meredith: It is where we are right now.
• 47:11
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 47:11
  Meredith: But speaking of the high school stuff, that freaks me out.
• 47:14
  Meredith: Like all of the things and you know, if they're going to, I, I, I'm glad you clarified that about the second language.
• 47:21
  Meredith: Cause you know, if they're going to a two year college, this four year college, this and what if they don't wanna go to college?
• 47:25
  Meredith: Which is fine.
• 47:25
  Meredith: And I'm glad that our high school is, has a lot of programs for kids that don't.
• 47:30
  Meredith: Yes.
• 47:30
  Meredith: You know, vocation stuff.
• 47:31
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 47:31
  Meredith: Um, technical colleges or technical schools and certificate things that they have.
• 47:35
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 47:36
  Meredith: You know, access to I think is fantastic.
• 47:38
  Meredith: Mm-hmm.
• 47:39
  Meredith: But yeah, just, just trying to listen to, okay, they need to do this and they need to do this.
• 47:44
  Meredith: And I was like,
• 47:45
  Stefanie: so Dylan's guidance counselor is phenomenal.
• 47:48
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 47:48
  Stefanie: And I've known her, since Dylan was little.
• 47:50
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 47:50
  Stefanie: Um, her son was in Dylan's class and so I, I had already had that relationship with her.
• 47:54
  Stefanie: Nice.
• 47:54
  Stefanie: but I did hear from other parents with other counselors this year mm-hmm.
• 47:58
  Stefanie: That they were like, they're like, well, what are, what are you gonna major in?
• 48:01
  Stefanie: And Yeah.
• 48:01
  Stefanie: Like, the kids are freshmen, like,
• 48:04
  Meredith: I don't know what I wanna be when I grow up and I'm 45 years old.
• 48:07
  Stefanie: Um, so, you know, I was talking to the guidance counselor, like when we were picking a schedule for next year, just mm-hmm.
• 48:12
  Stefanie: In case for whatever reason, the other school doesn't work out.
• 48:15
  Stefanie: Right.
• 48:15
  Stefanie: He has a schedule.
• 48:16
  Stefanie: Um, and so, you know, she's like, well, you know, with Dylan, what do you want?
• 48:21
  Stefanie: Go to college for, he's like to play lacrosse.
• 48:24
  Stefanie: I'm like, you have to have a major to Right.
• 48:26
  Stefanie: To go to the college.
• 48:27
  Meredith: Right.
• 48:28
  Meredith: We've had that, we have that same conversation.
• 48:30
  Meredith: Cause Jackson, you know, wants to be a professional football player, which is great and fun, but you know, when your body gives out or when you know whatever, you have to have that backup plan.
• 48:39
  Meredith: And, um, yeah, we've tried whatever.
• 48:41
  Meredith: I think he's, he's mostly interested in, in.
• 48:44
  Meredith: Well, it could change every day, so I'm not able say it, but,
• 48:47
  Stefanie: well, you know, every year they asked Dylan, um, before my, the parent IEP meeting mm-hmm.
• 48:51
  Stefanie: What he wanted to be.
• 48:53
  Stefanie: Well,
• 48:53
  Meredith: did he have a wide variety of things?
• 48:55
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 48:55
  Stefanie: Well, every year it changed, obviously, but Okay.
• 48:57
  Stefanie: Um, the covid year, the, where we were home for like only like those couple of months, um, the first year Covid hit.
• 49:04
  Stefanie: Um, we're doing the IP over Zoom mm-hmm.
• 49:07
  Stefanie: Or whatever platform we were on.
• 49:08
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 49:09
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 49:09
  Stefanie: And, um, they're like, just to let you, oh.
• 49:12
  Stefanie: You know, we asked Dylan what he wanted to be when he grows up and, and the response was he wanted to be a bartender.
• 49:19
  Meredith: Oh my gosh.
• 49:21
  Meredith: Oh my.
• 49:22
  Meredith: I thought
• 49:23
  Stefanie: it was like, Oh,
• 49:25
  Meredith: what is the plan for that?
• 49:27
  Stefanie: And I was like, well, he has to aim a little higher.
• 49:29
  Stefanie: He needs to own the bar,
• 49:31
  Meredith: bar owner.
• 49:33
  Meredith: Oh my gosh, that's pretty funny.
• 49:34
  Meredith: So like his whole, all of his teachers are on this.
• 49:40
  Meredith: And the principal, you know, they still tell this story.
• 49:43
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 49:43
  Stefanie: I was like, uh oh, okay.
• 49:47
  Meredith: Jackson's has never changed.
• 49:49
  Meredith: It's always been a football player.
• 49:50
  Meredith: I mean, from the time.
• 49:52
  Meredith: Like three.
• 49:53
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 49:53
  Meredith: In pre-K doing or whatever it's called.
• 49:55
  Meredith: I don't know.
• 49:56
  Meredith: Mom's morning to help stuff.
• 49:56
  Meredith: And they had career day.
• 49:58
  Meredith: Always a football player.
• 50:00
  Meredith: So that child either is gonna get his heartbroken or fulfill his dreams.
• 50:04
  Meredith: We'll see.
• 50:05
  Meredith: It could go either way.
• 50:06
  Meredith: Um, yeah, these kids, I swear,
• 50:08
  Stefanie: oh my gosh.
• 50:09
  Stefanie: Well, that it's.
• 50:10
  Stefanie: Who knows?
• 50:11
  Stefanie: Even if, like, he doesn't go pro lacrosse, right?
• 50:13
  Stefanie: Like he said, he still wants to coach lacrosse.
• 50:16
  Meredith: That's Jackson thoughts too.
• 50:17
  Stefanie: you know, he wants to be involved in Yeah.
• 50:19
  Stefanie: The youth programs, like when he's absolutely of age to coach.
• 50:22
  Stefanie: so like he, he wants to give back Yeah.
• 50:24
  Stefanie: To the community.
• 50:25
  Stefanie: I'm like,
• 50:25
  Meredith: that's huge.
• 50:25
  Stefanie: I said, well, he still needs something to pay your bills.
• 50:28
  Stefanie: Right?
• 50:28
  Stefanie: I mean, so, um, you know, He, you know, he's like, well, maybe I'll do a lacrosse like store or you know, whatever.
• 50:35
  Stefanie: I'm like, be cool.
• 50:36
  Stefanie: Yeah, yeah.
• 50:36
  Stefanie: I was like, dude, like do what you love.
• 50:37
  Stefanie: I mean, that's what your passion is.
• 50:39
  Stefanie: Do it.
• 50:40
  Stefanie: Right.
• 50:40
  Stefanie: Um, you know, he started string lacrosse.
• 50:42
  Stefanie: You were telling me about that for his friends and he started charging so
• 50:45
  Meredith: Well, I mean, that's okay cuz that's taken some time and supplies and all that.
• 50:49
  Meredith: So, yeah, it takes him like a couple hours to do each head and he just,
• 50:52
  Stefanie: he bought dye to like dip the, the plastic, the heads in.
• 50:55
  Meredith: Oh, okay.
• 50:56
  Stefanie: So he made like a super cool like bluish ombre nice head.
• 51:00
  Stefanie: And so he's like, how people are asking me to do that now to cus Yeah.
• 51:04
  Stefanie: And I was like, dude, you have to go 45 minutes to an hour away to get to, to get that done.
• 51:08
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 51:09
  Stefanie: And it's probably not a do it while you wait kind of thing.
• 51:11
  Stefanie: No.
• 51:11
  Meredith: It might be a come back and pick it up thing.
• 51:13
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 51:14
  Meredith: Now is school lacross over?
• 51:16
  Stefanie: they have two games left.
• 51:17
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 51:17
  Stefanie: Um, when they get back from spring break.
• 51:18
  Stefanie: Okay.
• 51:18
  Stefanie: And then it'll be over.
• 51:20
  Stefanie: then there was like, I just saw something like, there was like a summer rec league or something.
• 51:24
  Meredith: Cool.
• 51:25
  Meredith: You know we were talking about Jonas earlier, you know he's hurt.
• 51:27
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 51:28
  Stefanie: Broke his collarbone.
• 51:29
  Stefanie: Yes.
• 51:29
  Meredith: He's gotta have surgery, I think Wednesday.
• 51:31
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 51:31
  Meredith: Um, he's a champ though.
• 51:33
  Stefanie: Dylan wanna show me the picture.
• 51:34
  Stefanie: He's like, I still made the goal,
• 51:36
  Meredith: right?
• 51:37
  Meredith: Well, that I was like, jazz sent it to me and I was like, oh my gosh, it's crazy.
• 51:43
  Meredith: Poor dude.
• 51:44
  Meredith: He's got a surgery, but I'm glad that they're gonna go ahead and do the surgery now instead of trying to see if it heals correctly and then, Then had the surgery.
• 51:51
  Meredith: Cause that's what they did with mine.
• 51:53
  Meredith: I had broke my collarbone and they were like, well let's see if it heals.
• 51:55
  Meredith: And you know, like three months later it's still not healing and they're like, let's do surgery and then you're done.
• 51:59
  Meredith: And then I was right.
• 52:00
  Meredith: Yeah.
• 52:00
  Meredith: Um, so anyway, wishing him a speedy
• 52:04
  Stefanie: Jonas, if you listen, we love you.
• 52:06
  Meredith: He better listen.
• 52:06
  Meredith: Well, at least to that part since we said his name.
• 52:09
  Meredith: This is a Jonas episode
• 52:11
  Stefanie: last week.
• 52:11
  Stefanie: It was ducks.
• 52:13
  Stefanie: Yeah.
• 52:14
  Meredith: Save the ducks.
• 52:16
  Meredith: Yep.
• 52:16
  Meredith: Absolutely.
• 52:17
  Meredith: So this one's the Jonas Jonas episode.
• 52:20
  Meredith: Um, all right, cool.
• 52:21
  Meredith: Oh, what state are we gonna do for our
• 52:24
  dumb,
• 52:25
  Stefanie: um, should we stay south?
• 52:27
  Stefanie: And
• 52:27
  Meredith: let's stay south.
• 52:28
  Stefanie: Let's do Georgia.
• 52:29
  Meredith: I was thinking Georgia.
• 52:31
  Meredith: See?
• 52:31
  Meredith: Perfect.
• 52:32
  Meredith: Yes.
• 52:32
  Meredith: Perfect.
• 52:33
  Meredith: Okay.
• 52:33
  Meredith: We'll do Georgia.
• 52:34
  Stefanie: Georgia.
• 52:34
  Meredith: and we're gonna decide, oh, no, we're gonna do that noon Colleen Hoover book.
• 52:39
  Meredith: No.
• 52:39
  Meredith: No.
• 52:39
  Meredith: Jillian McMasters?
• 52:41
  Meredith: Yes.
• 52:41
  Meredith: Is that right?
• 52:42
  Meredith: Yes.
• 52:42
  Meredith: Why is my brain not working today?
• 52:44
  Stefanie: Uh, my brain doesn't work any day.
• 52:45
  Stefanie: McAllister.
• 52:46
  Stefanie: McAllister?
• 52:47
  Stefanie: Not McMasters.
• 52:47
  Stefanie: That's our governor.
• 52:51
  Stefanie: I don't wanna read nothing.
• 52:53
  Stefanie: I don't, I don't do politics.
• 52:55
  Meredith: Me neither.
• 52:57
  Meredith: That's why we don't talk them here.
• 52:58
  Meredith: Um, so wrong place, wrong time by Jillian McAllister?
• 53:02
  Meredith: Yes.
• 53:03
  Meredith: Okay, cool.
• 53:04
  Stefanie: All right.
• 53:04
  Stefanie: Well, thank you guys for spending this time with us.
• 53:07
  Stefanie: Um,
• 53:08
  Meredith: thank you.
• 53:08
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• 53:15
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• 53:24
  Stefanie: But be nice.
• 53:25
  Meredith: We don't like to cry.
• 53:26
  Meredith: I think I've said that 14.
• 53:27
  Meredith: times
• 53:27
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• 53:30
  Stefanie: Nicely.
• 53:33
  Meredith: Thank you everybody.
• 53:33
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• 53:34
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• 53:35
  Stefanie: Oh yeah.
• 53:35
  Stefanie: We love you.
• 53:36
  Meredith: Thank you.
• 53:36
  Meredith: Bye.
• 53:37
  Meredith: Bye